stories of radical feminism
past, present, future
Even Breath is a Translation
Inviting stories in creative nonfiction that explore the subject of translation, in and beyond language. We are particularly curious about these areas: What does it mean
Understanding Indian Post-Colonial Identity Through Reading Habits
Let’s travel to the India of the 1950s, a country redefining itself in the wake of a hard-fought victory. Decades of collective effort, hope, and
Testimonies of Women at the anti BT Act 1949 protest, Bodh Gaya.
The protest against the Bodh Gaya Temple Act of 1949 continues at the Domuhan grounds, the first hearing of the writ petition filed in the
“This Land We Call Home” Exhumes the Personal and Elevates the Political
The protagonist Saleem Sinai’s fate in Salman Rushdie’s Booker Prize-winning novel Midnight’s Children (Jonathan Cape, 1981) is meticulously tied with what unfolds in the subcontinent.
A letter of Complaint, A Letter of Resistance
I write a letter, not to a person, place, thing. But a letter to a time. To a time with co-workers who were friends and
‘Teslam Eedek’
I do not remember the first time I said ‘teslam eedek’ to my mother. It is quite a strange phrase when taken out of its
Architects of Joy, Over and Over Again
My mother and her sisters were born at a table where harm was never too far. It has been an eight seater for as long
A Graduate’s Denial
Some people graduate once in a generation. My oldest memories are of seeing a room full of onions—or in this case, two-thirds of the house
Migrant Women and Freedom
Jyoti used to live in Gagodhar, a small village in the Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh. In her village, as soon as girls hit puberty,
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Writing Women is a seed bank. Every story of radical feminism from our past and present is a seed that powers our imagination for the future. We seek to fill these pages with seeds of writings, oral tales, songs, poems and art that reveal resistance, sisterhood and decolonizing solidarity across borders of landscape and language from Palestine to Turtle Island, the Congo to Kashmir.
“There She Goes,” Reviewing The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
A handbook is an assortment of guidelines or instructions on a specific topic. But a handbook on killing joy? Who exactly is a killjoy, and why do we need a
The Many Lives of Syeda X: Whose Story Is It Anyway?
The aromas of different spices and herbs engulfed all my senses the moment we stepped foot in the area. We were at the Khari Baoli market as a part of
Transnational Truth-Telling as Sanity
Two books, this week, have kept me sane. One is Michelle Good’s collection of seven essays about Indigenous life in Canada aptly titled ‘Truth Telling,’ and the other is Isabella
